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What is Zork?
Zork was one of the first interaction fiction games for the PC. You would type out your instructions the screen, and would get a response saying what then happened. It was entirely text based. See below the threads by Chet Fabulous on the previous entries in the series.

So wait, entirely text? I thought you said this was going to be a Screen Shot LP?
Starting with Return to Zork, the Activision starting putting out new Zork games that were graphical, and had live action actors for FMVs. This is one of those Zork games. So this thread will mainly be screen shot, with some videos here and there when I feel they add to the enjoyment. At the end of every post I'll be posting a video that shows everything that was done in the post in video form. Just no commentary for these parts, I have no microphone.

How does the gameplay work for this?
It's a first person point and click adventure puzzle game. Think Myst. Actually the game is rather similar to Myst in a lot of ways, it just adds a sense of humor to the whole approach.

The Zork games are all great, but this is the first one I played, so it will always hold a special place in my heart. It's relatively short, and genuinely funny, which can be hard to come by in games these days.

Also, there are many ways to die in this game. I'm going to try to showcase all of them, and post them in the thread as well as the OP once they occur. But if you guys notice that I've missed one, let me know and I'll head back and show that one too. I want to be complete with this.

So without further delay, let's get this thing started!

The thread is done now! So feel free to check out the complete LP below!

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